Here we go - Come on England

[upthecreekyetagain]

England’s World Cup campaign starts right now - fingers crossed for a good start. 😉

[cee-dee]

No horsing around at the horse show?

[upthecreekyetagain]

My advice would be to steer clear of the beer tent. 

[cee-dee]

Deno's not left home and gone North?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-44714124/world-cup-2018-horse-in-selston-ba...

[upthecreekyetagain]

Deno in a bar wouldn’t leave much room for anyone else!

[margaret*e]

Those Smoggies, CD, you can't take them anywhere.

[mustard-tree]

Football, cricket, now its Wimbledon hogging the afternoon tv slots.  On both BBC channels as well.

[fallen-archie]

World Cup Quarter Finals

France: 6 letters
Uruguay: 7 letters

Brazil: 6 letters
Belgium: 7 letters

Sweden: 6 letters
England: 7 letters

Russia: 6 letters
Croatia: 7 letters

Games to be played on 6 & 7 July

6+7 =13
13 letters in

It’s coming home

[upthecreekyetagain]

It’s coming home alright!

Fabulous game.

[joe_bloggs*]

If you have time have a read of this by Raheem Sterling. It's a lovely story about family, mates and community solidarity."It was all a dream"

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/raheem-sterling-england-it-was-all-a-dream

[fallen-archie]

Great story joe thanks for sharing👍

[goldenwonders]

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@fallen-archie wrote:
World Cup Quarter Finals

France: 6 letters
Uruguay: 7 letters

Brazil: 6 letters
Belgium: 7 letters

Sweden: 6 letters
England: 7 letters

Russia: 6 letters
Croatia: 7 letters

Games to be played on 6 & 7 July

6+7 =13
13 letters in

It’s coming home

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Not quite sure where this is all going, so now the French will lose to Belgium? (6 v 7) and two 7 letters play each other (Eng v Croatia), does that mean its all going to end in penalty shoot out - If so can we do it again??

Actually I said at page one - its ironic England have had far better teams with better manager's and been useless; and yet I can actually see us winning this!!!

I just got back from Barcelona and watched it in the square, England fans were well gone, but no trouble and even bought the Swedish ladies red roses each! They then sang voulez vous to the French stag party who were brave enough to goad them. It was quite funny.

[fallen-archie]

I think the point of difference here is that there are no superstars / prima donnas and the manager has so far proven to be a very shrewd and knowledgeable one, without the seasoned nature of so many of his predecessors. Hopefully he will continue to thrive as he did early days at Middlesboro, nothing fancy just well organised and willing team of players!

[goldenwonders]

Agreed no prima donnas - although Sterling is a bit of one - and he has't been much use either!

The rest are playing well - nothing to shout home about but playing well as a team - they believe in each other.

I really do think they can win this, Croatia were the tougher team to get, but for me the better team to get. If we'd got Russia we'd be playing 12 men - one of which would have been the referee who would not have given any decisions against Russia in the last 10 minutes for fear of causing a riot - and maybe getting novachocked!!

[cee-dee]

Who's gonna be brave enough to predict the result?

Will it be finished in open play, after extra time or after penalties?

[mikes*corvettes]

Alan Shearer summed it up beautifully with just one sentence.

"Whatever happens the boys are coming back as heroes, but they have the chance of coming back as legends".

[fallen-archie]

I don’t care about the result or how it’s achieved as long as we win😄 it’s high time we won something and the World Cup of 1966 is becoming such a distant memory, so come on England do it for us 👀PLEASE👍

[goldenwonders]

We will win - as long as we play to the best of our ability avoiding any confrontation after we get fouled - because we are going to be chopped down and it will be pysical! Crotia are good - but not that good.

I think this is our time - let's do it, we can win and go on to the final - lets make the country feel good!

[upthecreekyetagain]

We’ll win so long as we all wear our waistcoats. 

If we lose then it’ll be your fault if you didn’t wear one.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/interactives/waistcoat-wednesday-brilliant-meme-dedicated-12893110

#waistcoatwednesday

[cee-dee]

I wish people in the UK (particularly the press) were a bit less cocky at the slightest advantage.

Headline :- "England winning World Cup semi-final"..... There's 55 minutes (at least) to go yet.

[upthecreekyetagain]

You don’t want England to win, do you?